O'Keefe, noting that tigers were endangered, said that efforts to preserve the exotic cats "will need to be conducted in captivity".
Decades of experimental work, conducted in captivity as well as in the field, revealed that many animals are able to learn socially or that they at least possess the ability to use the social information provided by other individuals in the learning process (Reader and Hager 2011).
For his conduct while in captivity Madden was posthumously awarded the George Cross, following his death from malnutrition and ill-treatment.
Though the European Union has an exception for using the animals in the event of "a serious pandemic," no EU nation keeps chimpanzees in captivity or conducts research on them.
An experiment was conducted to breed a near threatened Cyprinid Osteobrama belangeri in captivity through hormonal inducement.
The rearing of the birds in captivity and the following experiments were conducted under license from the Animal Experiment Committee of the State Provincial Office of Southern Finland (license number ESLH-2008-03693) and the Environmental Center of Southwestern Finland (license number LOS-2007-L-264-254).
Moreover, longer duration in captivity appear to protect war-affected youth from conduct problems.
After the announcement about the civets, the W.H.O. officials called for leaders in Guangdong Province to conduct a risk assessment study before killing the estimated 10,000 civet cats in captivity in the province.
Patarroyo argued that the requirement that he apply for a new license and use only monkeys raised in captivity would doom "the most important research ever conducted in Colombia" because it would take too long to breed a critical mass of monkeys in captivity.
Regurgitated food sharing in common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) was first noticed between mothers and pups in captivity, but was later recognized as an important social behavior among adults in a field study conducted in Costa Rica from 1978 to 1983.
The present study was conducted in September-October 2008, and all the animals currently at the field station were born in captivity.
